This artist has some pretty interesting work, and he has quite a lot of it! One thing I find really unique is the way he uses colouring book pages as a base for his collages, such a smart idea and very inspiring. I found it hard to choose favourites!
Name (Real or Screename): dou_ble_you
URL (Blog, Website): www.flickr.com/photos/dou_ble_you/
Location (Where are you from?): London
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Never ending urge to express/heal/expand myself.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: I have two specific areas. One is ‘cut & paste’ paper works. The other is my digital collages and photography. Sometimes, I mix both of them.
For cut & paste I use:
- newspapers & magazines
- free leaflets
- found items (playing cards, tickets, torn bits of posters etc.)
- old ‘for sale’ library books
- comics
For digital imagining my sources are:
- my street photographs
- my photographs of various ‘objects’ I may come across or just shots of images instead of scanning: this could be books, magazines, newspapers. I recently was in a public library, where they had full annuals of 19th century periodicals. I went with my camera through quite a few pages.
- any image out there on the Internet.
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I was creating cut and paste images for more than 30 years. It was all prompted by a need to release my frustration at being lonely and misunderstood and by the need to ESCAPE the reality.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I work in another profession, which occasionally feeds my art as well.
A: I studied architecture but have no formal art training at all.
Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: Cut the paper and glue the pieces to another paper. Draw and paint. Set the camera to ‘automatic’ and keep shooting. Experiment with Photoshop.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: 30 years ago I probably had some favourite pieces of mine. I don’t really have any favourites now. The best one might unexpectedly turn out in another hour or tomorrow.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Hmmm. Long list, in no particular order. Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Warhol, Duchamp, Beuys, Klimt, Antonioni, Fellini, Kubrick, Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Symbolist painters, Robert Rauschenberg, Ralph Gibson, Richard Long, Banksy, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Martin Scorsese and his ‘70s movies, Francis Ford Coppola, Bunuel, French New Wave cinema, Godard, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Suzanne Vega, Egon Schiele, Santana, Edward Burne-Jones, Vermeer, Canaletto, Dadaists, ancient Greece temple builders, Hokusai, Tadanori Yokoo, Kurosawa…
Thanks dou_ble_you!
Comments (1)
he's one of my contacts on flickr and i think his work is great!!!
great choice to feature here! :)
Posted by Thereza Rowe | June 25, 2008 1:27 PM
Posted on June 25, 2008 13:27